I only counted about 3 potential escape routes from where I sat at the Virginia International Raceway during the Runoffs Racing competition. “That’s not enough. What if there are more than 3 shooters?” I thought to myself with a sense of terror. I couldn’t stay focused on the drivers circling the racetrack. Instead, I found […]

This November 5, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to elect a progressive majority to Virginia’s General Assembly. If we win in Virginia, we’ll be able to actually get work done in the commonwealth! Imagine that! We won’t have Republicans blocking the advancements that we need to make in raising teacher salaries, passing commonsense gun safety […]

On the first day of school a few weeks ago, Senator Glen Sturtevant was out in his district trying to get people to sign a petition against a rezoning proposal that would better integrate two of Richmond’s whitest schools. He was using the slogan “Save Our Neighborhood Schools,” which, as was noted in the Richmond […]

When we talk about voting rights in advocacy, we usually talk about people who’ve had their rights taken away because of felony convictions, but there’s a huge community of people we forget who don’t have voting rights––Virginia undocumented immigrants. Despite being written into the U.S. Constitution, history shows us the receipts that the right to […]

“Well I can’t vote for any of them anyway. I have a felony.” I might have heard a statement like that at least a hundred times when I was registering voters during my fellowship with New Virginia Majority. It was 2014 and I was chosen to participate in a Virginia initiative created to commemorate the […]